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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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(Travaillit,) Travayled, Travalit, Travel(l)it, ppl. adj. Also: travaled, travelled, -ed, trafillit. [Late ME and e.m.E. trauayld (1413), traveled (c1420), travelled (1525), travailed (1551).] a. Caused to suffer, troubled, harassed; harmed, damaged.(a) ?1438 Alex. ii 3061.
For ours are wonded and traualed [F. travellié] And wery, sen thay war assayled 1533 Boece 94.
Cesare … leiffing the schippis maist trafillit and vnhabill for saill c1590 J. Stewart 232 § 128.
As trauelit man abaishing all dois heir The curious carots quhilk by breath sall blaw(b) 1533 Boece 228b.
The Romane chiftane … reterit … his armye evill afflictit and trafillit

b. That has travelled. Also proverb. a1500 Prestis of Peblis 48 (Asl.).
‘I am nocht travalit as ar ȝe In mony syndry landis beȝond the se' … than spak Master Archebald ‘Ane travalit clerk suppos I be cald … I think nocht to presome As I … was neuer travalit bot to Rome 1531 Bell. Boece (M) I 17.
Sik doyngis … infoundis na les experience and wyisdome than the redaris war travalit throcht the warld c1550 Lynd. Test. Meldrum 24.
Ane nobill trauellit knicht, … Be sey and land ane vailȝeand capitane c1583 Misc. Bann. C. I 62.
A man not paste xxj yeres of age, and well trauayledproverb. a1598 Ferg. Prov. No. 40.
A travelled [MS travilled] man hath leave to lie